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<h1> Version 0.1.1 beta</h1>
<h2> 19th June 2010</h2>
<p style="text-align: left"> a lifestylelinking platform</p>


<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>How is all life connected?  I started thinking about his during my years at University and subsequently applied some of those ideas to startups and those experiences started to formulate the idea of lifestylelinking.  In summary, Einstein gave the law of physics, E=mc2, relativity and I was inspired to think that all life is connected and in a relative manner.  Gaia theory, James Lovelock also showed how the normalization of different life ecosystems allowed them to be connected and finally 'wisdom of crowds', from the earliest amateur mathematician calculations to the PageRank concept deployed by the Google founders harness the collective intelligence.  The lifestylelinking platform pulls together these ideas into one, built on the principals that the individual owns their own data and they have the right to have it work for them, wherever. With the open sourcing of the code, I looking forward to contributing to the wider open source community and to sharing in the discoveries we may find along the way.  James</p>

<h1>Installation and Use</h1>
<p>These instruction focus on the core lifestylelinking processes.  The platform uses numerous open source API libraries and installation and user guides for those should be consulted.</p>
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  <li>Download or unzip files</li>
  <li>Create a new mysql database granting appropriate permissions</li>
  <li>Create the file lifestylelinking/dbsettings.php <b>NB. If submitting changes back into the project svn then do not submit this file!</b>
	<pre>
		&lt;?php
		define("DB_HOST", "&lt;database host&gt;");
		define("DB", "&lt;databasename&gt;");
		define("DB_USER", "&lt;database user&gt;");
		define("DB_PASSWORD", "&lt;database password&gt;");
		?&gt;
	</pre>
	</li>
  <li><b>NB. To include videos in the site requires the Zend Gdata Library.  
	To install without video add the following line to the file lifestylelinking/dbsettings.php
	<pre>
		define("IGNORE_YOUTUBE", TRUE);
	</pre>
	</b></li>
  <li>Upload the files to a server.</li>
  <li>Navigate to the lifestylelinking/install.php</li>
  <li>Next login to the Contropanel at /lifestylelinking/controlpanel/login/login.php</li>
  <li>If the installation fails, please delete the all database tables and re-loading install.php</li>
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  First time use of lifestylelinking
<ol>
  <li>Signin to the Control Panel</li>
  <li>First navigate to Definitions Control page and setup a Magazine section(s) and then definition(s), these are created from wikipedia urls ONLY.</li>
  <li>Next navigate to Add new data page, add blog urls or use a blog search engine to identify content sources.</li>
  <li>Now navigate to the Daily Update page: Set the end date you want for the first results (a day will be automatically added every 24hrs from then on) and then press the buttons in this order: 1. Update qualifying urls, 2. Generate meStats, 3. Generate meLife data and finally 4. Start the processing of daily results.</li>
  <li>To add photo go to Daily Flickr photo page and click Update photo  (Edit dates if needed)</li>
  <li>View results on the site  'relativepath' to /lifestylelinking/index.php</li>
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Daily operational routine
<ol>
  <li>Login to the control panel</li>
  <li>Navigate to Dailyupdate page.
  <li>Update feeds button</li>
  <li>Update stats (daily or weekly or as appropriate)</li>
  <li>Update melife (daily or weekly or as appropriate) </li>
  <li>Create daily results</li>
  </ol>

lifestylelinking cloud EC2 instances
<ol>
  <li>coming soon, have instance lifestylelinking via amazon ec2 instance</li>
  <li></li>
  </ol>

<h1>Documentation</h1>
<p>The main documentations is found on the lifestylelinking <a href="">wiki</a>.  </p>

<h1>System</h1>
<ol>
  <li>PHP version <strong>5.2.13</strong> or higher.</li>
  <li>MySQL version <strong>4.0</strong> or higher.</li><li></li>
  <li></li>
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<h1>Copyright &amp; License</h1>
<p>lifestylelinking is released under the <abbr title="GNU Public License">GPL</abbr> (see <a href="license.txt">license.txt</a>).</p>
<p>Many opensource API libraries and tools are used in operating lifestylelinking, the license of each should be read and implemented.</p>

<h1>Feedback &amp; contributing</h1>
<p>Those inspired to use, write code, write documentation, design themes or willing to contribute ideas to this project are welcome to do so.  See the lifestylelinking community over on the wiki<a href="">lifestylelinking - open source project</a>.</p>

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